Stories

One of my last projects that I worked on with Save the Elephants was the big collaring operation. The collaring of elephants is very important in assisting the long term research and conservation of the Elephants. It helps STE to better understand...

I went out with Lucy King D Phil researcher who is working on a PHD investigating the relationship between Elephants and Bees which is producing very exciting results indeed, and with Joseph Soltis who is a visiting scientist from Disney. Joseph...

Saturday 13th Feb started out differently than most of my other days at Samburu it was cloudy and very softly raining after the rain that had occurred that night. When it rains apparently a great deal of the animals in the reserve move out as there...

Today we received a report that a dead elephant was found in the East side of Shaba reserve. We immediately went out to investigate and to write up a MIKE (monitoring the illegal killing of elephants) report. Shaba is known to be a very insecure...

Today we went out at 6am to track down an enormous Tusked Bull that we had discovered the previous day. He was a very distinct male with extraordinarily impressive tusks. The bull was unfamiliar to the STE. Upon closer inspection it was clear he was...

February the 12th turned out to be a very unexpectedly exciting day as I’m learning is fairly common with life in Samburu. This afternoon Iain kindly asked myself and STE current Kenyan intern Zeituna if we would like to fly down to Nanyuki with...

On the way back to camp in the evening we came across two huge bulls having a big psychological battle. It was soon revealed that these bulls were very well known characters to the STE team one of the Bulls was Pretty Bom Bom he is notorious for...

At approximately 7:30am yesterday morning on a routine patrol David and Tempe located the newly born Oscar Wilde of the Poetics. The family had not been seen since the night of the birth the previous Friday evening. It was a relief to report that...

David, Tempe and Josephine of STE went out on a routine patrol on Samburu side checking all the families in that area of the reserve. On the way we encountered several families including The Winds family. After checking Winds we encountered another...

 Hey I’m Tempe Adams from Australia. I am studying Environmental Science specialising in Biology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Between January 25th and February 21st 2010, I was Save the Elephants new intern. I would like to...